Definitions
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
mousy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective quiet and timid and ineffectual
- adjective infested with mice
- adjective of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse
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Examples
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"To the news, now," she keeps trying to say, while Scarborough and his brother-in-bombast laugh at her, deride her desire to do anything resembling actual journalism, and harass her with infantilizing, patronizing comments such as this one from Joe: "By the way, Mika's father called her mousey a couple weeks ago, and Mika's been yelling at me all morning to prove to her father that she is no mouse."
Jennifer L. Pozner: Paris Isn't Burning - Much to MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski's Chagrin 2008
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Even when one is quite well, the breath has a queer "mousey" odor, so that we never like to breathe the breath of another person.
The Child's Day Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Great monopolists control the supplies, and contract to deliver to these hotels, even in out-of-the-way localities, so much ice-stored, "mousey" fish, "mousey" quails, stringy meat, impossible vegetables and fruits, gathered from the cheapest markets of Europe and of a quality just not bad enough to cause a revolt among the hotel visitors.
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She was my age and she had pale skin and mousey brown hair.
Cul-de-sac Katie McCoach 2011
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Although Sheri and Cedric are initially shocked at the idea of their mousey Toni who works as a waitress in an Italian restaurant getting done up in spangles and glitter, the contest judge who is foolish enough to cross the Campari tribe unleashes a fury of familial defiance.
George Heymont: Fancy Footwork (Competition Isn't Everything) George Heymont 2011
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Looking at his standard-issue scurrying gait, his shrugging, mousey demeanour, and then witnessing the preternatural skittering electricity in those feet, you wonder why there hasn't ever been one of these before, or even hundreds of them.
Ten ways to satisfy your constant craving for El Clásico | Barney Ronay 2011
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She has changed from a mousey, insecure, drift into the background type person to a very outspoken confident individual.
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She used to be mousey and rarely stood up for herself.
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Mice carry lost souls to the Other side, but they also carry them back again, at their mousey whim.
Mice. Do not like! wendigomountain 2009
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Although Sheri and Cedric are initially shocked at the idea of their mousey Toni who works as a waitress in an Italian restaurant getting done up in spangles and glitter, the contest judge who is foolish enough to cross the Campari tribe unleashes a fury of familial defiance.
George Heymont: Fancy Footwork (Competition Isn't Everything) George Heymont 2011
she commented on the word mousey
Ha! If only this were what was meant by saying "mousey girls" and "mousey brown hair."
August 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word mousey
It's a god-awful small affair,
to the girl with the mousey hair,
but her mother is yelling 'No!'
and her father has told her to go
- David Bowie, 'Life On Mars'.
September 8, 2008